The Harvard Law School Forum on Corporate Governance https://corpgov.law.harvard.edu The leading online blog in the fields of corporate governance and financial regulation. Wed, 12 Aug 2026 13:32:25 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.5.9 https://corpgov.law.harvard.edu/wp-content/uploads/2024/02/cropped-photography-4-e1706898544564-1-32x32.png Legacies, Lessons and Launchpads: Charting Delaware’s Course in a New Era – The Harvard Law School Forum on Corporate Governance https://corpgov.law.harvard.edu 32 32 Legacies, Lessons and Launchpads: Charting Delaware’s Course in a New Era https://corpgov.law.harvard.edu/2026/08/12/legacies-lessons-and-launchpads-charting-delawares-course-in-a-new-era/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=legacies-lessons-and-launchpads-charting-delawares-course-in-a-new-era https://corpgov.law.harvard.edu/2026/08/12/legacies-lessons-and-launchpads-charting-delawares-course-in-a-new-era/#respond Wed, 12 Aug 2026 11:30:42 +0000 https://corpgov.law.harvard.edu/?p=183188?d=20260812093225EDT Posted by Justice Karen Valihura (Wilmington Univerity), on Wednesday, August 12, 2026
Editor's Note:

Justice Karen Valihura is a Distinguished Professor of Corporate Law and Founding Director of the Corporate Law, Governance and Practice Institute, Farnan School of Law, at the Wilmington University. This post is based on her 2026 Weinberg Distinguished Lecture, and is part of the Delaware Law Series; links to other posts in the series are available here.

It is a great honor for me to be part of the Weinberg Distinguished Lecture series. Thank you for inviting me. My remarks today are solely my own and are not made on behalf of the Delaware Supreme Court or any other person.

As I near the end of my twelve-year term, I have been reflecting on the amazing privilege and honor I have had serving as a Justice on the Delaware Supreme Court. I am so grateful to all who have been part of my journey. In thinking about how to describe it, I was recently inspired by NASA’s stunningly successful Artemis II Mission. That Mission – lasting only 10 days – had a successful launch, lunar fly by and a safe splashdown off the coast of San Diego. One of the Artemis II’s astronauts’ description of their “group activity” could also be used to very accurately describe working as a member of our collegial, collaborative Delaware Supreme Court. They described their “group activity” in terms of functioning as one, embracing mutual accountability, being dutifully linked, and in terms of joy-filled contribution and profound, brother-sister like camaraderie, exemplifying that high-stakes success requires prioritizing human connection.[1] These sentiments describe precisely my experience over the past twelve years, and truly, I have been blessed to have been part of this collegial Supreme Court.

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